FREE FCS Newsletters Available
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2007-02-07 09:50
To address Family & Consumer Sciences issues a weekly OSUE/FCS e-News message can be sent to your email to keep you updated about important information and upcoming programs. If you want to receive this update, you can subscribe by emailing dodrill.10@osu.edu or styer.17@osu.edu.
Or go to our Weekly FCS E-news to see issues.
Contact our office at 740/376-7431 or e-mail dodrill.10@osu.edu to receive any of these FREE newsletters:
Eating Heart Healthy This nine-lesson program provides a quick overview of the major principles and practices that lead to heart healthy food selection and preparation.
Positive Parenting This bi-monthly newsletter will help you strengthen your family. We will provide you with the most current findings on children, their development and positive parenting skills.Senior Hotline Senior Hotline is published six times a year. The topics covered include demographic trends, the aging process, social attitudes, retirement, death, and care giving.Connections for Children Family Child Care Connections; Child Care Center Connections; and School-Age Connections are newsletters available for day care providers depending on the location and age of the children. you may be interested in one or all of these bi-monthly newsletters.Getting Through Tough Times Getting Through Tough Times is a series of 19 fact sheets designed to help you manage during tough times. We encourage you to read the fact sheets and then discuss them with your entire family and possibly with others that are going through tough times.Manage Your Money Having trouble making ends meet? Does your paycheck run out before the month does? Wondering what happened to all of your money this year? Need help in making your dollars go farther? If you have answered "YES" to any or all of these questions, you will definitely want to enroll in our six-part home study course.Fitness Beat A one-page five-issue newsletter with ten posters for athletes of all ages, coaches and everyone interested in a healthier lifestyle.GRANDLETTERS GRANDLETTERS is a ten-letter program designed to strengthen the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren who are separated by distance. The program can also be used by elders who adopt a grandchild. Children who have no natural grandparents may enjoy being a sort of "pen pal" to a special elder friend. By using the mail to share their thoughts, feelings and experience, grandparents and grandchildren will draw closer togehter, learn from each other and build a reservoir of happy memories.Home and Away Program Keeping It Together While You Are Apart Packet includes fact sheets:
- About Health . . .
• Meals to Go
• Tickle Your Stress Before It Tackles You
• The Wellness Factor - About Money & Time . . .
• Home Maintenance
• Talking About Money
• Getting to Know You, Your Co-spender, and Money
• Roles and Responsibilities: Who Does Them WhenYou Are Gone?
• Making the Most of Your "Home Time" - About Relationships . . .
• Keeping It Together When Distance Keeps You Apart
• Ten Tips for Parents
• Welcome Back! Here's What's Been Happening While You Were Gone!
• Reconnecting With the Kids
• Dealing With Anger in a Marriage
• Resolving Conflict Constructively and Respectfully
• Keep the Home Fires Burning – When the Miles Separate You
• Family Communication: Overcoming Obstacles
• Teaching Children to Resolve Conflict
• Keeping the Romance Alive
Those who would benefit from this program:
People and family members of those whose jobs require extended time away from home.
Truck drivers
Pilots, flight attendants
Sales representatives
Construction workers
Shift workers with extended times on and off the job
Those who are separated or divorced
Military
